Minimum Playtime Threshold for Counting Playtime and Playcount

📋 Summary

Add an option in LaunchBox to define a minimum playtime threshold that must be reached before a session contributes to either a game’s Play Count or Playtime total. This prevents inaccurate tracking caused by quick emulator restarts, testing, or accidental launches.

🎯 Feature Overview

• Introduce a configurable setting (e.g., under Options > Game Data):

  • “Minimum playtime (in seconds or minutes) required before counting toward Play Count or Playtime.”

• Both Play Count and Playtime tracking would only be updated if the session exceeds the user-defined duration.

• Default value could be 0 (to maintain current behavior).

• Optional per-platform overrides to customize thresholds for different systems (e.g., 1 min for arcade games, 5 min for RPGs).

🛠 Example Use Case

A user frequently launches games to test emulator settings or controller configurations.

• Currently, these short sessions inflate both Play Count and total Playtime.

• By setting a minimum playtime of 3 minutes, only genuine play sessions are logged.

• Any session shorter than that duration is ignored for tracking purposes.

📦 Benefits

• 🎮 More accurate and meaningful Play Count and Playtime statistics.

• 🧹 Cleaner, more reliable data for users who frequently test or configure emulators.

• ⚙️ Highly customizable for both casual and power users.

• 🔧 Prevents misleading “Played once” entries from sub-minute launches.

💡 Notes

This system could later support:

• 🕹 Per-game exceptions for shorter titles (e.g., arcade or puzzle games).

• 📊 Analytics improvements, filtering out noise from short sessions when viewing total playtime or average session length.